Quotes from Amy Lane

Nobody had it under control. Nobody had it buttoned down all the time. Sometimes all you could do was play pretend. And the people who looked at him on the stage and pretended were just as bare on the inside as Mackey, who got lost in the music on the stage for the very same reason.

Crick got a clear view of him, laughing and nude and beautiful enough to make his heart break.

The man I fought with, the man who comforted me, the man who tried valiantly to slay my inner dragons on a daily basis, in spite of their preference for the tender flesh near his heart.

Maybe someday, it won't have to be a tragedy to be gay, you

There would be no intimacy unless Ace willed it to be, and getting his asshole destroyed by the crisp-moving, slow-talking military man would have simply been a way for Jackson to be all he could be.

sixty-dozen arrangements

Crick had arrived and stumbled into the house, intent on rest and quiet before he killed himself to escape the pain.

Anyway, it was just really important that I come out here for him, you know? So he's never afraid I'll leave him alone in an empty room.

A flight suit. 'Cause you're a big bad pilot, right? You fell out of your helicopter. Now unzip your onesie so you don't bleed to death.

If I'm your friend, you know anything is forgivable. Being lovers is harder. Let's get our shit sorted first.

Ellery had packed fairly thoroughly, but Jackson was as incapable as the next person of getting through Walmart without buying something he hadn't planned on and had no use for.

Such a simple concept. But then, the withy reed was always so in awe of the oak, it never occurred to it to grow.

was daylight at the end of the tunnel. A long, lifetime of a tunnel, into the best, most glorious day.

I mean, we bonded doing blow in the bathroom when we were doing our clinical rotations. It was 1987—who wasn't getting high? But…." He sighed, and Mackey realized his voice had gotten really impassioned.

Good. He won' thee me." Craw made a hurt sound. "Don't worry about Aiden seeing you, okay? He's always seen you." "When I wath preddy.

The elephant in the living room, eating what looked like a mixing bowl full of cold cereal with the force and verve of a backhoe at a landfill. "God. Don't you go somewhere in the day?

I've labored my entire life for a better world than this. It's such a step backward.

Funny, how some of the most important people of your life can be dismissed as inconsequential, just because you believe the bullshit they've spent their entire lives selling.

feeling like you're a failure in the romance department because you couldn't sprout wood if you woke up as fertile soil and the other guy's dick was bamboo.

Oh, damn the words he once threw like dandelions to the wind. Now when he needed them, they were buried under bandages and broken teeth.

I opened my heart, it filled with love, with sex, with power, with new. With every door I pulverized, I knew I'd be missing you.

Hormones and hope faded, and someday, sometime, there would always be a last hug, a last kiss, or a last dance.

And now Michael would go to prison all over again—he'd do it twice—to help that kid cross the damned street.

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